: [23] By the time Clanton finished his testimony, the entire prosecution case had become suspect. Clanton was played by actor Jeff Fahey in the Kevin Costner-led film "Wyatt Earp" (1994). They then walked a block north to an empty lot next to C. S. Fly's boarding house where Doc Holliday lived. The morning of the gunfight Ike, drunk and angry, went around, saying he was going to kill the Earps. Corral, but it was Ikes specific threats and actions the night before and in the morning of October 26 that led to that days events. So he threw himself at Wyatts mercy, affirming that fight was actually not his racket. This question is actually fundamental to the Earp myth. Claiborne, who was also unarmed, fled the gunfight. Related read: Im Your Huckleberry: The Real Meaning of Doc Hollidays Iconic Line. By 1878 Ike was running a small "lunch counter" at the Tombstone Mill site (now Millville on the San Pedro Rivernot in modern Tombstone). It's a Micro size geocache, with difficulty of 1.5, terrain of 1.5. But the Clantons were greenhorns in this part of the country, and Ike learned the hard way how the law of the land worked in the Golden State. Newman Haynes Clanton, also known as "Old Man Clanton", Ike's father, ran a ranch near the Mexican border that served as a waystation for much of the smuggling carried out by the outlaws. The Cowboys supported incumbent Sheriff Charles Shibell while the Earps supported his opponent Bob Paul in the November 1880 election. Corral And How It Changed the American West, Tombstone: The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride from Hell, Ride the Devils Herd: Wyatt Earps Epic Battle Against the Wests Biggest Outlaw Gang, And Die in the West: The Story of the O.K. Ike Clanton Ike Clanton Doc Holliday director of photography (as Charles B. Lang Jr.) Film Editing by Warren Low . Having successfully built a career as a lawman in the Old West, Wyatt Earp arrives in the town of Tombstone to enjoy a much-deserved retirement with his two brothers, Virgil . Behan stated he immediately went to locate the Cowboys. He also tried to buy a gun in Spangenbergs before the fight, though the shopkeep read the room wisely and refused to sell Ike a weapon. | Curly Bill Corral. : His brother Ike? Doc Holliday : That's the rumor. He denied having threatened the Earps. What is that now? In Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal, Stuart Lake paints an even more dramatic scene, though Lakes account is fraught with exaggeration and made-for-books drama. Old Man Clanton was most definitely "The founder of the feast" (great line) The life and times of. [35] Clanton appears in the Doctor Who story "The Gunfighters" (1966), played by William Hurndell, which is largely based on the Sturges film. According to Wyatt's testimony later, 18-year-old Billy Clanton asked him insolently if he had any more horses to "lose," but he gave the horse up without first being shown the ownership papers, demonstrating to Wyatt that Billy Clanton knew to whom the horse belonged. Wyatt, please, I Wyatt Earp The Clantons and their ranch hands and associates were known as the "Cowboys", and they had a reputation for reckless behavior. Flys boardinghouse and a frame residence owned by William Hardwood, who had been Tombstones first mayor.. Will update later. Ike Clantons allegiances had always been to the ranchers and rustlers of the region, but it was now clear that he and his partners would do whatever was necessary to keep things business as usual for local cattle rustling rings. : Tombstone (GC2J5F3) was created by manymutts on 11/12/2010. [4] Not having rented a room, McLaury and Clanton had no place to go. Corral Postscript: The Death of Ike Clanton, I will be ready for all of you in the morning., You must not think I wont be after you all in the morning., The damned son of a bitch has got to fight., You may have to fight before you know it.. Now heres where it gets tricky. Brighton was himself a known criminal and hardly a legit range detective. The film is loosely based on real events . Its not hard to see why history paints Ikes character so poorly. A posse including Virgil, Wyatt and Morgan, Johnny Behan, Bob Paul, Bat Masterson and Wells Fargo agent Marshall Williams tracked the outlaws trail toward a small ranch outside Benson, where they found Luther King, who admitted that he, Jim Crane, Harry Head and Billy Leonard were responsible for the hold-up. Ike did admit to being in Tucson, but claimed he and Stilwell split up earlier in the night, before the Earps arrived. He is married to Kristina Watson, a costume designer and teacher, with whom he has four children. [5]:193 However, the Clantons never registered a brand in either Cochise County or Pima County which was required to legally raise cattle. [22] He concluded that only way to deal with Morgan's murderers was to kill them.[25]. In November 1879, shortly after arriving in Tombstone, Earp had a horse stolen. Morgan and Virgil were also shot, Doc Holliday was grazed by a bullet, and Wyatt came away unharmed. In films, he played Maj. Gen. George E. Pickett in Gettysburg (1993) and the lead role of Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson in the Gettysburg prequel Gods and Generals (2003), both from director Ronald F. Maxwell. Some will pertain to the Kootenay area, some not. 'Doc': Dirigido por Frank Perry. Corral Gunfight, O.K. Fight is my racket, and I only want four feet of ground to fight on, was Ikes response, reported one account. On August 12, 1881, Old Man Clanton and six other men were herding stolen cattle sold to him by William Brocius through Guadalupe Canyon near the Mexican border. [citation needed], In 1957, Kelo Henderson played Clanton in an episode of Dale Robertson's NBC series, Tales of Wells Fargo. Spicer wrote, "the great fact, most prominent in the matter, to wit, that Isaac Clanton was not injured at all, and could have been killed first and easiest."[24]. Release Dates [flips a card] Wyatt Earp : Winner to the King, five hundred dollars. [21]:89 From Spangenberg's, the Cowboys moved to the O.K. He has gained world recognition after the roles of Col. What's wrong with him? Tombstone Marshal Virgil Earp played cards with Clanton, Tom McLaury, Cochise County Sheriff Johnny Behan and a fifth man (unknown to Clanton and to history), until morning. Corral. : Ike paid a fine of $27.50 and was released. Old Man Clanton and five other men were killed in the ambush. He thought catching the March 15, 1881 robbers of the Benson Stage (in which the driver and a passenger were killed) would help him win the sheriff's office. By noon that day, Clanton, drinking again and armed, told others he was looking for Holliday or an Earp. McCann slapped Clanton, who left and fetched his pistol. Corral in the boomtown of Tombstone, Arizona Territory but was unarmed and ran from the gunfight, in which his 19-year-old brother Billy was killed. The group soon congregated near the O.K. Immediately after the fight, Ike Clanton was kept in the Tombstone jail as rumors swirled that hed be lynched by the towns growing vigilante mob, townsfolk who tired of dealing with the cowboys and their violence. The movie plays very loose with the facts, but apparently the real-life Ike Clanton had a habit of running away from fights, too. Clanton died before he hit the dirt.[27][28]. They arrived from Antelope Springs, 13 miles (21km) east of Tombstone, where they had been rounding up livestock with their brothers and had breakfasted with Clanton and Tom McLaury the day before. Clanton said he feared that Wyatt wanted to kill him because he knew of Wyatt's role. Wyatt Earp, huh? : [27], Ellinger's older brother William Ellinger was one of the biggest cattlemen in the West with ranches in several states and territories. Technical Specs, [takes a bill with Wyatt's signature from a customer and throws it on the faro table], [Stillwell and Ike are planning to ambush the Earps at the train station], [Ringo is trying to get McMasters to rejoin the Cowboys]. Tombstone (1993) Full Cast & Crew See agents for this cast & crew on IMDbPro Directed by Writing Credits ( WGA) Kevin Jarre . I heard you the first time. Ike Clanton was a character played by Stephen Lang in the 1993 film 'Tombstone' directed by George P. Cosmatos. Joseph Isaac Clanton (1847 June 1, 1887) was a member of a loose association of outlaws known as The Cowboys who clashed with lawmen Wyatt, Virgil and Morgan Earp as well as Doc Holliday. Wyatt Earp Milt Joyce (owner Some thirty seconds after the fight started, it was over. Clanton has been portrayed in a number of films and television series since the 1940s, many of which were highly fictionalized. [4] Murder was a capital offense, and given their relationship, it was unlikely Holliday would confide in Clanton. You retired too? 2:30 p.m. October 26, 1881 Tom and Frank McLaury and Billy Clanton were killed. [5]:193 The Clantons were reputed to be among a group of outlaw Cowboys who crossed the border into Mexico where they stole cattle and re-sold them to the hungry miners in Cochise County. : In this particular telling, Ike Clanton is described not as a mindless killer but rather a man with . A man named Coleman told Virgil that the Cowboys had left the Dunbar and Dexter Stable for the O.K. He's drunk. ["In wine is truth" meaning: "When I'm drinking, I speak my mind"]. Both Brighton and Miller ordered him to halt but instead of doing so, when about twenty yards distant where the trail took a turn to the left, he threw his rifle over his left arm attempting to fire; at this instance Detective Brighton fired, the ball entering under the left arm and passing directly through the heart and out under the right arm. Good. He said Wyatt, Virgil, and Morgan Earp offered him his rifle and to fight him right there in the courthouse, which Clanton declined. After the confrontation with Clanton, Wyatt Earp took Holliday back to his boarding house at Camillus Sidney "Buck" Fly's Lodging House to sleep off his drinking, then went home and to bed. However, when the gunfight broke out, Clanton ran forward and grabbed Wyatt, exclaiming that he was unarmed and did not want a fight. Most of em, especially those from Texas, didnt care for Mexicans the MexicanAmerican War was still pretty close in their rearview and it was easy to adopt a dont ask, dont tell kinda policy that made for cheaper beef in town. "[12]:6668:164 Clanton ran through the front door of Fly's boarding house and escaped, unwounded. Savvy? "OLD MAN" CLANTON . : Lunger. But the question remains: is Ike Clantons cowardly reputation warranted, or was he simply the victim of frontier circumstances beyond his control? Curly Bill [29] Some modern writers wonder if Brighton simply used resisting arrest as an excuse to explain his assassination of Clanton. Corral during a trial scene in Muskogee Little Theatre's production . In pace requiescat. I told him I would keep them in the stable after this and give him no chance to steal them.. You see that? : During a month-long preliminary hearing before Judge Wells Spicer, Clanton told a story of abuse that he had suffered at the hands of the Earps and Holliday the night before the gunfight. The incidents had generated a lot of talk in town. The Toughest Gun in Tombstone. That's how Joseph Isaac "Ike" Clanton managed to get through at least part of the O.K. : Then, with James Earp and his wife Bessie, the group headed to Tombstone in December of that year. Can you sense a theme yet? They moved their operations to a ranch they named the Cienega Amarilla, near Springerville, Arizona. Ike Clanton was raised on a cattle ranch in Missouri, where he learned the trade of cattle herding and ranching at an early age. Pima County was heavily Democratic, but many of the new miners and merchants in Tombstone voted Republican. The practically all male cast features lean, rugged Robert Ryan as Earp's chief real-life nemesis Ike Clanton and in his second motion picture lanky Jon Voight of "Midnight Cowboy" fame. When Virgil Earp learned that Wyatt was talking to the Cowboys at Spangenberg's gun shop he picked up a 10-gauge or 12-gauge, short, double-barreled shotgun[20]:185 from the Wells Fargo office around the corner on Allen Street. On October 26, 1881, Clanton was present at the Gunfight at the O.K. Later that month, the cowboys took frontier justice into their own hands with the attempted assassination of Virgil Earp on December 28, 1881. To this protest Wyatt said he responded, "Go to fighting or get away!". : The Earps and the Clantons had political, personal, and legal differences and the animosity between them grew throughout 1881. Several members of the citizen's vigilance committee offered to support him with arms, but Virgil said no. : . When not reading or writing about history, he enjoys traveling and exploring the outdoors at Territory Supply. Ike was the only cowboy to survive, and he was nowhere near the scene when it ended. A few days later Wyatt gathered a larger posse and set out on a vendetta, determined to mete out justice that had evaded him. : He was a child actor, starting at age 11 in "It Happened at the World's Fair." Was also in Disney roles. Johnny Ringo Directors George P. Cosmatos Kevin Jarre (Charlton Heston scenes) Writer Kevin Jarre Stars Kurt Russell Val Kilmer Sam Elliott See production, box office & company info Watch on Tubi Go to tubitv.com In the gunfight, Virgil, Morgan and Wyatt Earp joined Doc Holliday to . : With the deal dissolved, Ike Clanton faced a new problem: if word got out that he colluded with Wyatt Earp to turn in other outlaws, however that deal ended, his reputation and his life was in danger. Ike reeled in his saddle and fell on the right side of his horse, his rifle falling on the left. In 1880, as the potential growth of Tombstone became clear, the Pima County sheriff election between Democrat Charlie Shibell and Republican candidate Bob Paul included two unlikely poll officials in the San Simon area: Ike Clanton and Johnny Ringo. He was still steaming about his confrontation with Doc, and informed Wyatt that he was about to go and get his guns from wherever he had checked them earlier in the day. No. Cambridge Dictionary defines a coward as a person who is not brave and is too eager to avoid danger, difficulty, or pain, and in this scenario its not a stretch to say Ikes actions were cowardly. The usual verdict: Ike was all bark and no bite. Related read: 6 Tombstone Filming Locations You Can Still Visit Today. Wyatt Earp (Matthew Madewell, left) interrogates Ike Clanton (Patrick Kays) on his recollections of the shootout at the O.K. It wouldnt look good to voters if he was known to collude with cowboys, much the same way current sheriff Johnny Behan had. He took part in the Mason County War in Texas during which he committed his first murder. By 1881 he was working on his father's ranch at Lewis Springs, about 12 miles west of . Corral.Ike, the braggart leader of the outlaws, fled at the first sound of gunfire with Billy Claibourne hot on his heels.His brother William "Billy" Clanton was killed in the shootout along with Frank and Tom McLowry. When it was launched in 1993, Lang was still virtually unknown in Hollywood, and thus, played a small role in the film in the character of Ike Clanton. : Corral' (1957), while Robert Ryan portrayed him as a highly sophisticated personality in 'Hour of the Gun' (1987). Look, darling, Johnny Ringo. I heard of you. Go to fighting or get away. Ike Clanton took flight, racing through the Fly house, into a vacant lot, through Kelloggs saloon, and finished his sprint two blocks away on Toughnut Street, where he was later arrested.. Next time it wont be your horse well get, Billy Clanton called after Wyatt in highly colored allusion; itll be you.'. With Old Man Clanton in the grave, Ike was finally free to act however he pleased without worrying about how his father might respond afterward, wrote Jeff Guinn in The Last Gunfight. Bullets fly behind the OK Corral. [referring to Stilwell, laying dead] Doc Holliday Clanton had told others that Doc Holliday, Virgil Earp, Wyatt Earp, and Morgan Earp had all confided in him that they had actually been involved in the Benson stage robbery. [gives a Cheshire cat smile] Angrily, Frank said he would not drink, and he and Billy left the saloon immediately to seek Tom. It says United States Marshal! [9] Around dawn, they were ambushed by Mexicans dispatched by Commandant Felipe Neri[10]:110 in the Guadalupe Canyon Massacre. A restaurant has been opened by Mr. Ike Clanton.. What do you think, darling? : Corral, at an eighteen-foot-wide empty lot on the south side of Fremont between C.S. Frank Stillwell Although Spicer noted that Virgils action to include Wyatt, Morgan and Doc in the confrontation was injudicious and censurable, it wasnt enough to convince him that the Earps acted in the wrong. Corral where witnesses overheard them threatening to kill the Earps. In vino veritas. A reporter who corresponded with Brighton in late June 1887 relayed Brighton's story about the arrest and shooting: The next morning, while they were at breakfast, Ike Clanton came riding up to the front door. I heard of you. | Where's Wyatt? The next morning Scotts agent Thomas R. Bard, later a major figure in the Union Oil Company and a United States senator from California, armed himself with a Winchester rifle and called Ike from his shack. They quickly discovered a shallow grave under a large tree that they believe contains the remains of Ike Clanton. In other words: not the kind of person you want to argue land rights with. There are about as many accounts of the encounter as there were witnesses, but the gist of it was that Doc called Ike a liar and told him to get his gun, which he didnt have. Tombstone (1993) - Michael Biehn as Johnny Ringo - IMDb All Tombstone (1993) Michael Biehn: Johnny Ringo Showing all 19 items Jump to: Photos (8) Quotes (11) Photos Quotes Curly Bill : [takes a bill with Wyatt's signature from a customer and throws it on the faro table] Wyatt Earp, huh? I heard of you. Wyatt spoke of his brothers Virgil and Morgan as the "marshals" while he acted as "deputy.". In March 1881, a stagecoach between Tombstone and Benson was held up, and two people driver Bud Philpot and a passenger were killed, though Pima County sheriff (and shotgun messenger) Bob Paul managed to get to Benson with the coachs $26,000 Wells Fargo lockbox intact. Though Ike Clanton's hat was found at the scene where the ambushers waited, a number of associates stood up for him, saying that he had been in Contention that night, and the case was dismissed for lack of evidence. Wyatt Earp Something around the eyes, I don't know, reminds me of me. By September 1874, Old Man Clanton had a nice thing going on the Gila. That all sounded good on paper, and Ike Clanton agreed to turn on his fellow cowboys, but the plan soon fell apart when it was discovered that Leonard and Head had already been killed by rustlers in the Animas Valley of New Mexico. Buck Taylor Turkey Creek Jack Johnson Harry Carey Jr. Tombstone Marshal Fred White Pedro Armendriz Jr. In the film, Clanton is portrayed as being second-in-command of the Clanton Gang. woman with scar on her face in tombstonemi compromiso contigo amor : Doc Holliday It's the story of legendary lawman Wyatt Earp (Kurt Russell) and focuses on his time in Tombstone, Arizona, battling cowboys alongside his brothers and best friend, the former dentist turned poker playing gunfighter Doc Holliday. Joseph Isaac (Ike) Clanton (1847 - June 1, 1887) was born in Callaway County, Missouri. That was just how the A.T. rolled back then. Judge Spicer exonerated the lawmen. Johnny Ringo : [Ringo steps up to Doc] And you must be Doc Holliday. Clanton testified later that he saw Virgil take his six-shooter out of his lap and stick it in his pants when the game ended. He didnt stop at legal activities, however; just about every source agrees that he and his sons rustled and bought rustled stock, participating in the free and easy raiding conducted both by Arizona bands and by Mexican bands criss-crossing the Mexican border, wrote Paula Marks in And Die in the West: The Story of the O.K. Clanton was implicated in the attempted assassination of Virgil Earp on December 30, 1881 but other Cowboys provided an alibi and he was released. During the course of this rather intense standoff, Ike Clanton, then employed as a day laborer, made the mistake of threatening the life of surveyor Johnny Stow. Before the fall, Brighton fired a second shot which passed through the cantle of the saddle and grazed Ike's right leg. The Clantons eventually settled in Santa Barbara County, near Port Hueneme, and lived on what they believed to be public land, but which in fact belonged to wealthy, influential folks like Thomas A. Scott, a railroad baron who had been elected U.S. Assistant Secretary of War by Lincoln before the Civil War. Wyatt Earp (written by) Cast (in credits order) verified as complete Produced by Music by Bruce Broughton Cinematography by William A. Fraker . Eventus stultorum magister. In the days before the gunfight, Clanton had enlisted the help of fellow Cowboy Billy Claiborne, who was reputed to be good with a gun. : You don't even know him. A local journalist provided the forty-year-old Cowboys most fitting epitaph: Thus ended the wild career of poor, deluded, misguided Ike Clanton,' John Boessenecker wrote in Ride the Devils Herd. Johnny Ringo Based on the real life tales of Wyatt Earp, his brothers, and Doc Watson, "Tombstone" is a Western film on DVD, starring Kurt Russell as Wyatt Earp. However the night played out, Ikes threats stand out as a turning point. He further claimed that Holliday had told him that Holliday had "piped off" money from the stage before it left (although no money was missing, and the stage had not been successfully robbed). Not after what you done. [4] Sheriff Johnny Behan At about dawn on October 26, the card game broke up and Behan and Virgil Earp went home to bed. Not in any language. That summer, rustlers had stolen Army mules that ended up on the ranch of Frank and Tom McLaury, and Wyatt had a horse stolen and later found on the Clanton ranch. After three days, he spent the night of May 31, 1887 at Jim "Peg Leg" Wilson's Ranch on Eagle Creek, south of Springerville. In late 1882, Ike and his brother Phin moved their operations north of Springerville, in Apache County, far from their troubles in Tombstone. Michael Witney played Clanton in Doc (1971). Joseph Isaac. Virgil Earp told Clanton he would leave Clanton's confiscated rifle and revolver at the Grand Hotel which was favored by Cowboys when in town. By April 1882, Wyatts vendetta ride had reached its end, and the Earps split up into the next chapters of their lives, with Wyatt and his crew traveling up to Colorado. Clanton testified that he picked up the weapons from William Soule, the jailer, a couple of days later. Clanton was later accused, along with his brother, Phin Clanton, and friend Pony Diehl, of attempting to kill Virgil Earp on December 30, 1881, a shooting which left Virgil with a crippled left arm. [26], By 1885, the Clanton gang included Lee Renfro, G.W. Wyatt Earp His father worked at times as a day laborer, a gold miner, a farmer, and by the late 1870s, a cattleman in Arizona Territory. In missing the messenger and killing the driver the robbers had defeated their own plans.. Either way, he conveniently dodged more bullets. [33][34] In Sturges' sequel, Hour of the Gun (1967), he is portrayed by Robert Ryan as a sophisticated man. : Just at this time, Mr. Miller stepped to the door, to be ready to render any assistance needed, and when Ike saw him he wheeled his horse and attempted to get under cover of the thick cover which grows close to Wilson's home, at the same time pulling his Winchester from its scabbard. It also angered Earp. After the Gunfight at the OK Corral, the Clantons bought land near a ranch owned by their sister Mary. Doc Holliday Role: Ike Clanton, second in command of the Cowboys Also known for: Also worked with Elliott in "Gettysburg" (1993) and appeared in "Gods and Generals" (2003) and "Avatar" (2009).